Wire Antennas for Ham Radio
Iulian Rosu YO3DAC / VA3IUL http://www.qsl.net/va3iul
01 - Tee Antenna 02 - Half-Lamda Tee Antenna 03 - Twin-Led Marconi Antenna 04 - Swallow-Tail Antenna 05 - Random Length Radiator Wire Antenna 06 - Windom Antenna 07 - Windom Antenna - Feed with coax cable 08 - Quarter Wavelength Vertical Antenna 09 - Folded Marconi Tee Antenna 10 - Zeppelin Antenna 11 - EWE Antenna 12 - Dipole Antenna - Balun 13 - Multiband Dipole Antenna 14 - Inverted-Vee Antenna 15 - Sloping Dipole Antenna 16 - Vertical Dipole 17 - Delta Fed Dipole Antenna 18 - Bow-Tie Dipole Antenna 19 - Bow-Tie Folded Dipole Antenna for RX 20 - Multiband Tuned Doublet Antenna 21 - G5RV Antenna 22 - Wideband Dipole Antenna 23 - Wideband Dipole for Receiving 24 - Tilted Folded Dipole Antenna 25 - Right Angle Marconi Antenna 26 - Linearly Loaded Tee Antenna 27 - Reduced Size Dipole Antenna 28 - Doublet Dipole Antenna 29 - Delta Loop Antenna 30 - Half Delta Loop Antenna 31 - Collinear Franklin Antenna 32 - Four Element Broadside Antenna 33 - The Lazy-H Array Antenna 34 - Sterba Curtain Array Antenna 35 - T-L DX Antenna 36 - 1.9 MHz Full-wave Loop Antenna 37 - Multi-Band Portable Antenna 38 - Off-center-fed Full-wave Doublet Antenna 39 - Terminated Sloper Antenna 40 - Double Extended Zepp Antenna 41 - TCFTFD Dipole Antenna 42 - Vee-Sloper Antenna 43 - Rhombic Inverted-Vee Antenna 44 - Counterpoise Longwire 45 - Bisquare Loop Antenna 46 - Piggyback Antenna for 10m 47 - Vertical Sleeve Antenna for 10m 48 - Double Windom Antenna 49 - Double Windom for 9 Bands 50 - Collinear Trap Antenna 51 - Short Dipole Antenna for 40m - 80m - 160m 52 - Center Fed-Zepp Antenna for 80m - 40m 53 - All-Bands Antenna 54 - All-Bands Dipole Antenna 55 - Multiband Z Antenna 56 - Multiband Dipole Antenna 57 - Five-Bands No-Tuner Antenna 58 - Dualband Full-wave Loop Antenna for 80m-40m 59 - Loop Antenna for 10m 60 - Lazy Quad Antenna for 10m 61 - Tri-band Delta Loop Antenna for 80m - 40m - 30m 62 - Dual-band Loop Antenna for 30m - 40m 63 - Wire-Beam Antenna for 80m 64 - Dual-Band Sloper Antenna 65 - Inverted-V Beam Antenna for 30m 66 - ZL-Special Beam Antenna for 15m 67 - Half-Sloper Antenna for 160m 68 - Two-Bands Half Sloper for 80m - 40m 69 - Linear Loaded Sloper Antenna for 160m 70 - Super-Sloper Antenna 71 - Tower Pole as a Vertical Antenna for 80m 72 - Clothesline Antenna 73 - Curtain Zepp Antenna for 160m, 80m, 40m 74 - Collinear Array Antenna for 40m, 30m, 20m 75 - 160m Inverted Delta Loop 76 - Half Rhombic Unidirectional Vertical for 20m to 6m 77 - Capacitance Loaded Vertical Antenna for 160m 78 - Fan Dipole Antenna for 80m to 6m 79 - Wire Ground Plane Antenna 80 - Inverted Delta Loop Antenna for 160m 81 - Inverted-L for 160m 82 - 300ohm-Ribbon Dual Band Dipole 83 - Tri-Band Beam for 20m, 15m, 10m 84 - Mini-Horse Yagi Antenna 85 - Backpack J-Pole Antenna for 10m, 6m, 2m 86 - Fan-Dipole Antenna for 80m to 6m 87 - Capacity Tuned Folded Loop Antenna for 20m 88 - Indoor Loop Antenna for 80m to 30m 89 - Indoor Loop Antenna for 80m 90 - Double-Delta Antenna 80m and 40m 91 - Inductance-Loaded Shortened Dipole for 160m 92 - V-Beam Antenna for 15m 93 - Picnic Vertical Wire Antenna 94 - Laid-Back Quad Antenna for 80m 95 - Phased Loop Antenna 96 - Loop Antenna for TX for 160m 97 - Morgain-Dipole Antenna for 160m and 80m 98 - ZL-Special for 20m, 15m, 10m 99 - Biconical Antenna 100 - Directive Delta-Birdcage Antenna for 20m to 10m 101 - Dual Polarization Antenna for 80m and 40m 102 - Directive 300-ohm-Ribbon Folded Dipole for 15m 103 - Miniature Directive Antenna for 10m 104 - Biquad Antenna 12dBi-Gain for 2.4GHz 105 - Dual-Rhomboid Antenna for 435MHz to 870MHz 106 - Double-Bazooka Antenna for 80m 107 - J-Style Antenna 108 - Vertical / Horizontal / Circular Polarization Antenna 109 - Coax Inverted-L Antenna for 80m 110 - Indoor Compact Loop Antenna for 80m 111 - Helix Antenna 112 - Novice Vertical Antenna for 80m, 40m, 15m, 10m 113 - Stub-Loaded Shortened Dipole for 80m 114 - Six-Band Wire-Stub Trap Antenna for 40m-10m 115 - Multiband Half-Wave Delta-Loop Antenna 116 - Hybrid Vee for 20m, 17m 117 - Six-Shooter Array Antenna, Gain=7.5dB 118 - Multiband Ground-Plane Antenna for 10m, 15m, 20m 119 - Wire Superbeam Antenna for 10m, 15m, 20m 120 - Two Elements Delta-Loop Antenna 121 - Sterba Curtain Antenna 122 - Half-Wave Vertical Zepp Antenna 123 - Lazy-Loop Antenna for 40m 124 - Terminated Folded Dipole for 80m, 40m 125 - Short-Fat Antenna for 15m 126 - Cobra Antenna for 80m 127 - Log-Periodic Wire Antenna for 20m, 15m, 10m 128 - 5-Element Log-Periodic Vertical Antenna for 80m, 40m, 20m 129 - 2m Vertical Wire Antennas 130 - Earth-Mover Inverted-V Antenna for 40m 131 - Coax-Cable Collinear Antennas 132 - Double Bobtail Antenna for 20m 133 - Collinear Zepp Antenna 134 - Taylor Vee Antenna for 20m 135 - Collinear Vertical Antenna 6dB-Gain for 2m, 1.3m, 73cm 136 - Bi-Loop Antenna for 20m 137 - Wire Beam 6dBd-Gain for 10m 138 - Sloping Diamond Antenna 4dB-Gain for 40m 139 - Twisted Loop Antenna for 160m 140 - DX RX Loop Antenna for 160m 141 - Hentenna 3dB-Gain for 10m, 6m, 2m
01 - Tee Antenna
02 - Half-Lamda Tee Antenna
03 - Twin-Led Marconi Antenna
04 - Swallow-Tail Antenna
05 - Random Length Radiator Wire Antenna
06 - Windom Antenna
07 - Windom Antenna - Feed with coax cable
08 - Quarter Wavelength Vertical Antenna
09 - Folded Marconi Tee Antenna
10 - Zeppelin Antenna
11 - EWE Antenna
12 - Dipole Antenna - Balun
13 - Multiband Dipole Antenna
14 - Inverted-Vee Antenna
15 - Sloping Dipole Antenna
16 - Vertical Dipole
17 - Delta Fed Dipole Antenna
18 - Bow-Tie Dipole Antenna
19 - Bow-Tie Folded Dipole Antenna for RX
20 - Multiband Tuned Doublet Antenna
21 - G5RV Antenna
22 - Wideband Dipole Antenna
23 - Wideband Dipole for Receiving
24 - Tilted Folded Dipole Antenna
25 - Right Angle Marconi Antenna
26 - Linearly Loaded Tee Antenna
27 - Reduced Size Dipole Antenna
28 - Doublet Dipole Antenna
29 - Delta Loop Antenna
30 - Half Delta Loop Antenna
31 - Collinear Franklin Antenna
32 - Four Element Broadside Antenna
33 - The Lazy-H Array Antenna
34 - Sterba Curtain Array Antenna
35 - T-L DX Antenna
36 - 1.9 MHz Full-wave Loop Antenna
37 - Multi-Band Portable Antenna
38 - Off-center-fed Full-wave Doublet Antenna
39 - Terminated Sloper Antenna
40 - Double Extended Zepp Antenna
41 - TCFTFD Dipole Antenna
42 - Vee-Sloper Antenna
43 - Rhombic Inverted-Vee Antenna
44 - Counterpoise Longwire
45 - Bisquare Loop Antenna
46 - Piggyback Antenna for 10m
47 - Vertical Sleeve Antenna for 10m
48 - Double Windom Antenna
49 - Double Windom for 9 Bands
50 - Collinear Trap Antenna
51 - Short Dipole Antenna for 40m - 80m - 160m
52 - Center Fed-Zepp Antenna for 80m - 40m
53 - All-Bands Antenna
54 - All-Bands Dipole Antenna
55 - Multiband Z Antenna
56 - Multiband Dipole Antenna
57 - Five-Bands No-Tuner Antenna
58 - Dualband Full-wave Loop Antenna for 80m-40m
59 - Loop Antenna for 10m
60 - Lazy Quad Antenna for 10m
61 - Tri-band Delta Loop Antenna for 80m - 40m - 30m
62 - Dual-band Loop Antenna for 30m - 40m
63 - Wire-Beam Antenna for 80m
64 - Dual-Band Sloper Antenna
65 - Inverted-V Beam Antenna for 30m
66 - ZL-Special Beam Antenna for 15m
67 - Half-Sloper Antenna for 160m
68 - Two-Bands Half Sloper for 80m - 40m
69 - Linear Loaded Sloper Antenna for 160m
70 - Super-Sloper Antenna
71 - Tower Pole as a Vertical Antenna for 80m
72 - Clothesline Antenna
73 - Curtain Zepp Antenna for 160m, 80m, 40m
74 - Collinear Array Antenna for 40m, 30m, 20m
75 - 160m Inverted Delta Loop
76 - Half Rhombic Unidirectional Vertical for 20m to 6m
77 - Capacitance Loaded Vertical Antenna for 160m
78 - Fan Dipole Antenna for 80m to 6m
79 - Wire Ground Plane Antenna
80 - Inverted Delta Loop Antenna for 160m
81 - Inverted-L for 160m
82 - 300ohm-Ribbon Dual Band Dipole
83 - Tri-Band Beam for 20m, 15m, 10m
84 - Mini-Horse Yagi Antenna
85 - Half-Rhombic Directive Antenna for 20m to 6m
86 - Fan-Dipole Antenna for 80m to 6m
87 - Capacity Tuned Folded Loop Antenna for 20m
88 - Indoor Loop Antenna for 80m to 30m
89 - Indoor Loop Antenna for 80m
90 - Double-Delta Antenna 80m and 40m
91 - Inductance-Loaded Shortened Dipole for 160m
92 - V-Beam Antenna for 15m
93 - Picnic Vertical Wire Antenna
94 - Laid-Back Quad Antenna for 80m
95 - Phased Loop Antenna
96 - Loop Antenna for TX for 160m
97 - Morgain-Dipole Antenna for 160m and 80m
98 - ZL-Special for 20m, 15m, 10m
99 - Biconical Antenna
100 - Directive Delta-Birdcage Antenna for 20m to 10m
101 - Dual Polarization Antenna for 80m and 40m
102 - Directive 300-ohm-Ribbon Folded Dipole for 15m
103 - Miniature Directive Antenna for 10m
104 - Biquad Antenna 12dBi-Gain for 2.4GHz
105 - Dual-Rhomboid Antenna for 435MHz to 870MHz
106 - Double-Bazooka Antenna for 80m
107 - J-Style Antenna
108 - Vertical / Horizontal / Circular Polarization Antenna
109 - Coax Inverted-L Antenna for 80m
110 - Indoor Compact Loop Antenna for 80m
111 - Helix Antenna
112 - Novice Vertical Antenna for 80m, 40m, 15m, 10m
113 - Stub-Loaded Shortened Dipole for 80m
114 - Six-Band Wire-Stub Trap Antenna for 40m-10m
115 - Multiband Half-Wave Delta-Loop Antenna
116 - Hybrid Vee for 20m, 17m
117 - Six-Shooter Array Antenna, Gain=7.5dB
118 - Multiband Ground-Plane Antenna for 10m, 15m, 20m
119 - Wire Superbeam Antenna for 10m, 15m, 20m
120 - Two Elements Delta-Loop Antenna
121 - Sterba Curtain Antenna
122 - Half-Wave Vertical Zepp Antenna
123 - Lazy-Loop Antenna for 40m
124 - Terminated Folded Dipole for 80m, 40m
125 - Short-Fat Antenna for 15m
126 - Cobra Antenna for 80m
127 - Log-Periodic Wire Antenna for 20m, 15m, 10m
128 - 5-Element Log-Periodic Vertical Antenna for 80m, 40m, 20m
129 - 2m Vertical Wire Antennas
130 - Earth-Mover Inverted-V Antenna for 40m
131 - Coax-Cable Collinear Antennas
132 - Double Bobtail Antenna for 20m
133 - Collinear Zepp Antenna
134 - Taylor Vee Antenna for 20m
135 - Collinear Vertical Antenna 6dB-Gain for 2m, 1.3m, 73cm
136 - Bi-Loop Antenna for 20m
137 - Wire Beam 6dBd-Gain for 10m
138 - Sloping Diamond Antenna 4dB-Gain for 40m
139 - Twisted Loop Antenna for 160m
140 - DX RX Loop Antenna for 160m
141 - Hentenna 3dB-Gain for 10m, 6m, 2m
References:
Antenna Toolkit - J. Carr Practical Antenna Handbook - J. Carr More Antenna Classics - C. Hutchinson Amateur Radio Techniques - P. Hawker ARRL Antenna Handbook 1990-2007 ARRL Handbook 1990-2009 ARRL Antenna Compendium 73 Magazine 1970-2002 Funkamateur Magazine 1990-2011